John Cridge

Background

John Cridge was born in 1833 at West Hatch, Taunton, Somerset, England.

on 23 November 1863 John Cridge married Mary Higgs at St Gregory's Catholic Church, Queanbeyan, New South Wales.

John Cridge died at Numerella aged 84 years on 26 February 1917.

Goldfields Involvement, 1854

John Cridge was a private with the 12th Regiment. He was stationed at Eureka in 1854, and deserted from the Military there in August 1855.

Post 1854 Experiences

Cridge moved to the Cooma/Monaro district of New South Wales.

In the News

Public Schools.-The undermentioned gentlemen have been appointed to form the Public School Boards of the Public schools established at the places specified in connection with their names respectively:-Killawarra - Messrs. Archibald Moore, Benjamin Thur ling, Richard James Ferrett, and James Moora; Kelvin Grove - Messrs. William Chapman, Edward Carey, William Walter Bird, Benjamin Joyce. John Burgess Smith ; Deep Creek-Messrs. James Maher, Denis Martin, and John Edgeton ; Tollbar Creek-Messrs. William Goodwin, Edward Agnew, George Goodwin, William George Lloyd, and John Cridge; Moonan Brook Messrs. William Williams jun., John Simson, John Londrigan, John Ewbank Simpson, and Walter Samuel Baker; Welshman's Creek-Messrs. Justin Hamburger, William Henry Holmes, J.P., John Getts, John Gehrig, Anthony Kellner, and Jacob Smith; Windowie-Messrs. Thomas Quilty, Henry Walker, Thomas Boyd, and John Richards. ...

See also

Military

Further Reading

Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.

External links

http://www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au/art/12th_regt_list.htm

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